In the fiscal year 2023, light-weight commercial mail added up to approximately 3.61 billion items handled, decreasing from 4.03 billion in the preceding fiscal year. Japan Post's Yu-Mail was the leading delivery service.
Number of commercial mail items delivered in Japan from fiscal year 2015 to 2023
(in billion items)
fiscal years 2015 to 2023, the fiscal year in Japan runs from April 1 of the stated year to March 31 of the following year
Special properties
figures have been rounded
Supplementary notes
*Since October 2016, Yu-Packet shipments are excluded. Since Sagawa Express Co., Ltd. changed its accounting period, the fiscal year 2017 includes mail delivered by this company in the period from March 21, 2017, to March 31, 2018 (376 days).
The term "mail" refers to a transportation service where the shipper takes a comparatively light package, e.g., books, magazines, catalogs, etc., and completes the shipment by dropping it in the consignee's mailbox. The mail is not for personal correspondence and is a single piece in one load carrying a delivery service's product name. Mostly, this service serves commercial purposes, e.g., direct mail.
Data prior to the fiscal year 2019 are from previous reports.
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MLIT (Japan). (August 23, 2024). Number of commercial mail items delivered in Japan from fiscal year 2015 to 2023 (in billion items) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 21, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1275133/japan-commercial-mail-delivery-volume/
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MLIT (Japan). (2024). Number of commercial mail items delivered in Japan from fiscal year 2015 to 2023 (in billion items). Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: December 21, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1275133/japan-commercial-mail-delivery-volume/
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